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8/02/2005

LABOR TO CONSIDER DUMPING DEMS WHO BACKED CAFTA

Source: PAICHICAGO (PAI)--The AFL CIO will consider running primary candidates against congressional Democrats who received labor campaign committee financial contributions, then voted on the evening of July 27 for the anti worker Central American Free Trade Agreement, federation President John J. Sweeney announced.Speaking the next morning to the federation’s convention at Chicago’s Navy Pier, Sweeney called 15 Democrats, along with 202 GOPers, “sellouts of working men and women.” (MORE >>>)